This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs examines democratic innovations across the world and how they could be implemented in a Welsh context. Our new report, Fostering Democratic Innovations in Wales, produced in collaboration with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society, examines democratic innovations put into practice...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Welsh Affairs explores the concept of mission-driven government in the Welsh devolved context. Wales faces a systemic and wicked set of challenges. This major new IWA report seeks to inform how we can set up devolved government to tackle them, and bring about a brighter future....

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs recommends a deliberative approach to sustainable transport, developed in partnership with communities. Wales needs a future-proof transport system to face up to the realities of climate change, but Welsh Government is faced with a complex set of challenges: encouraging take-up of electric vehicles (EV)...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs make recommendations to ensure that Welsh communities benefit from the transition to Net Zero. In our new report written by Lydia Godden, Sharing power, spreading wealth, we make recommendations to ensure that Welsh communities benefit from the transition to Net Zero. Despite ambitious targets,...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs sets out a vision for accelerated infrastructure investment in Wales. Despite ambitious targets and a swathe of measures to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, Welsh Government is currently failing to meet the pace and scale of change required by the challenge...

This paper from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs reports on the Creative Crossroads event organised by the Institute of Welsh Affairs with support from Creative Wales. Titled Creative Crossroads: Well-being & Sustainability in the Creative Industries, the event explored the challenges of funding, persisting precariousness, and sustainability in the creative sector in...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs outlines how learning and best practice from participatory grantmaking could be adapted for journalism funding. In the UK and around the world we face multiple, intersecting crises – crises in our democratic institutions, crises of social inequality, and crises in our environment. We urgently...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs warns against the effects of political pessimism if we are to overcome our ‘democratic malaise’. Our report, Building Bridges: Wales’ democracy – now, and for our future, calls for measures to strengthen Wales’ democracy beyond the electoral cycle and warns against the effects of...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Welsh Affairs looks at international case studies and recommendations for broadcast regulations. This short paper forms the second and third part of a three-part piece of research. The research presented here was conducted by researchers of the Media Cymru programme at the Creative Economy Unit of...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs looks at the role of trade unions in helping rebalance the economy. Months of industrial action have put trade unions in the spotlight, but despite some bright spots the trade union movement in Wales has still experienced a long-term decline. Young workers are not joining...